Today is a "I'm going to eat the crisps and there's nothing you can do about it world" kind of day. Ready salted, if you are wondering.

I recently joined Sysdig's What The Hack show in this episode examining Deepfake executive fraud, discussing why it has become such an issue and how to prevent it. (Also, you can nose at the LEGO sets behind me.) Thanks to @maliciarogue.bsky.social for having me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKq...

So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.

Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange: "When's copy approval due?"

The military ceremony for Donald Trump is on in the background. I thought they were playing the theme tune to Monty Python's Flying Circus ...

Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement

1) Would this be useful? 2) Is there an initiative like this already that Jess could contribute to, or does she need to create one? 3) would anyone want to get involved or support this?

Everything is fine dot GIF

Me, an enterprise B2B IT PR person running a podcast on cloud security for a client: ... You, Spotify account manager: Hey, have you considered some back to school marketing campaigns?

I'm currently running a poll on LinkedIn, does 'pulling the plug', or taking servers and systems offline, stop an attack and an attacker in their steps? I would love your vote here - www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ra...

And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus. Kuber- net- es at the edge!

Always fun when you see a massive organisation in the data and analysis business, that actively wants you to share its data, and then they go through a big website refresh that breaks all their links.

Cats totally would carry out multiple rug pulls ... or as they term it, "making cyber biscuits"

An initial release of Cyberthreaterator 2.0 is now up and running: falling-anvil.com/cyberthreate...? Any suggestions for additional threat types will glady be accepted.

scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

As the head of new threat group 'Vicious Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse', I intend to monetise my Ransomeware campaigns where I overwrite critical business documents with excerpts of Swallows and Amazons.

FREE STORY ALERT The whole of my short story "The Black Line" is now up on Authory for free. If you want an urban fantasy tale about identity, loneliness, trains and someone just doing the right thing, then give it five minutes of your time. If you enjoy it, please quote post and pass it on!

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The Spectrum / Amstrad game for Dan Dare in the 1980s was banging. Recently got one of the old strips out as a collected edition from our local library. It held up pretty well.

SINGS: On my way to KubeCon / On my way to KubeCon / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) Developing cloud-native / Containers de-mon-strat-ive / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) My cloud it will be sovereign / Even if it leads to some pain / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) ETC. might see you there

I haven't seen a lot of people mentioning this, but if you are going to #Kubecon and you have a US passport (among many others) you need to get the Electronic Travel Authorization before you go to the UK. It can take up to 3 business days, though mine took 15 minutes. www.gov.uk/guidance/app...

Sharing this as a lovely piece of writing around open tech, taking a stance and being willing to work on things: ratfactor.com/tech-nope

The direct line from military marching band instrument design, to the sax line in Ace of Base, All That She Wants.

Email from publisher on Friday: Please click through on this link for an RFP Me, separately to publisher contact email account: Is this legit? Email account: Yes, completely above board Me: Hmmmm. Not clicking on that Email from publisher on Monday: We were hacked Me: Knew it

A positive news story in the security industry today - eSentire awards its latest student bursary and announces ten years of running its SOC in Cork. www.techcentral.ie/sean-henness...

Piece on how to use both internal information and external data as part of your security approach. Comes after the launch of the Cyber Monitoring Centre earlier this month.

How much can we save by divesting ourselves from gold braid?

Tired: Client announces customer Wired: Customer announces they are a client. Aston Villa FC announces the club is using eSentire for security: www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/fe...

Session on open source in the public sector within the Global South - Paula Hunter of Mojaloop Foundation on where funding comes from, how open source development model is understood, and the future for folding this back into the wider open source community - digital and data sovereignty #soocon25

Emily Middleton, DSIT at #soocon25 - launch for new digital services earlier in 2025. New suite of AI tools nicknamed Humphrey. Reports on issues around Gov digital approach - too much reliance on old legacy tech and not enough people. Too difficult to collaborate around public data.

Open source and forking - what does the data tell us? @geekygirldawn.bsky.social of CHAOSS provides an overview of the impact that a fork has had on three projects - ElasticSearch / OpenSearch; Terraform / OpenTofu; Redis / Valkey. Full data is at github.com/chaoss/wg-da... #soocon25

We are honored to be a media partner for @openuk.bsky.social #SOOCon25. Be sure to stop by the job board from partner @opensourcejobhub.com and sponsored by G-Research. Browse #SOOCon jobs now on #OSJH opensourcejobhub.com/categories/s... #events #career #community #OpenSource #FOSS #AI

So much going on today - geopolitics, code support and what people think collide, with much bigger consequences for tech.

PR Week: Will DeepSeek shake-up AI in PR? Me: Can I just shout Betteridge's Law at this? www.prweek.co.uk/article/1904...

Digital skills are at the centre of much of our work at OpenUK and CEO @amandabrock.bsky.social commented to the BBC on the value of open source in developing these and stemming talent flight https://buff.ly/4jDtEIw #opensource #openuk

Future Media Day - AI is a core area of focus for spending in 2025. Real ROI is the goal, with returns expected this year according to @rorybathgate.bsky.social DeepSeek Klaxon goes off after fifteen minutes.

At the Future Focus Media Day this morning - top three topics for investment will be AI, cybersecurity, automation. Cloud still in the top ten, but more about hybrid and private cloud. Common link to all priorities? Data. @itpro.com

Problem in the cloud? Who you gonna (sys)call? @sbisson.com covers the launch of Stratoshark here, and why this level of detail is needed for troubleshooting around the cloud: www.infoworld.com/article/3808...

Overview of Stratoshark here from Help Net Security: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/22/s...

The Open Weight Definition has launched courtesy of the Open Source Alliance. Adrian Bridgwater has the overview at Forbes, with @samj.net and @amandabrock.bsky.social - www.forbes.com/sites/adrian...

Wireshark told you what was going on in your network. Stratoshark lets you troubleshoot what is going on in your cloud. If you want to investigate cloud activities with system calls, then Stratoshark is your flying carcharadon of choice.

Surely this will ingratiate him more effectively. "Hey guys, I'm just like you!"

Interesting research from Qualys here where they found a botnet that’s infected vulnerable AVTECH cameras and Huawei routers. 1500 IP addresses found to be in the bot army used to carry out further attacks. blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit...

Session tracks on open source, security, finance and telecoms are in place, and the plenaries are looking 🔥🔥🔥 Press passes available if you are interested.

Sometimes the brand extensions for publishers are staring you right in the face.

To be real conspiracy, it has to come from the conspiracy region in the US. Anything else is just sparkling political conjecture.

Sharing this because Anna is brilliant. Go on, find this out for yourself.